Associations to the word «Offscouring»

Wiktionary

OFFSCOURING, noun. Refuse removed from something by scouring
OFFSCOURING, noun. (figuratively) An outcast, a pariah.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope